I’ve started a longer-than-usual project to watch the fish feasts and see how profitable it is to try to make them to sell to other guilds, whether that’s fishing for the ingredients yourself or playing auction house.

The first ingredient we will look at is glacial salmon. The best place to fish them is in the Grizzly Hills in Northrend as they come in pools and can also be fished with a fishing skill of 1. The route I took was to start just below Zeb Halak, follow the river east to logging. campgrounds that always had a good number of pools waiting for me, then I follow the river all the way south to where it meets the sea at Venture Bay and back down the creek heading to Drak Tharon to start the loop again. This last stretch of river has fish pools, however they are not glacial salmon pools so I ignored them.

I fished until I caught exactly 200 salmon that ended up at the 85 minute mark and about 3 loops of the route described above. Along with the salmon, he had caught 132 pygmy suckling pigs and a variety of crafting materials from the boxes (scraps of boreal leather, cobalt ore, frostweave cloth). All of these non-salmon items sold for a total of 89G at auction.

Now looking at the fish themselves. I saved all of mine for the fish feast experiment of which I will post the results in a few weeks. However, if you want to sell them outright, you have two options.

The first is to sell them raw. These would be bought by people who are improving their culinary skills or by people who want to make their own fish feasts and have no time to fish for themselves. On my server, glacial salmon costs 1g26 each, which would give a total sale price of 252g

The other option is to use the power of spices to make firecracker salmon. This is a raid booster food that grants good spell power +46 and +40 Stamina. The additional ingredient that is needed to make this is northern spices and they have recently been plummeting so fast that I am now collecting batches of 100 for 15 silver per spice. So, start with a fish that is worth 1g26, add 15 silver spice coins and voila, the finished product is now worth 2g61.

However, this is not as simple as it sounds. Firecracker salmon sells much slower than raw glacial salmon. This means that if you decide to cook your fish, you will have to be prepared to only put 2-3 stacks in the AH at a time to avoid flooding the market. You should also be prepared for any AH competition that could very quickly reduce the price of this slow-selling food.

The end result of selling the cooked version would end up at a price of 581g (firecracker salmon + trapped mats – spices purchased). This is over the 85 minute trip. The hourly rate would be 410 g / h.

There is also a lesson to be learned from the courtesy I encountered while fishing in the Grizzly Hills for this. For the most part, you can expect to have the entire river to yourself when you are fishing. Salmon can be fished elsewhere and there are no fishing missions that require you to be in this area. However, after about 30 minutes of fishing, I found myself trying to land in the same pools as another character. Because he was at level 80, I assumed he was looking for the same fish as me, either as a benefit to himself or as fish feasts, so I resigned myself to sharing the ponds with him and reducing the rate of fish caught per hour. . After a few minutes of this, I decided to say hi to him and ask him what he was doing. Turns out he was new to fishing and was only here to improve his fishing skills. Then I spent a while explaining that if you wanted to increase your skill through swimming pools, then there were better concentrations in places like the South Sea. He thanked me for my help and flew off, once again letting me fish all of Grizzly Hills on my own. So happy endings for everyone.